By joining the Clean Clothes Campaign Urgent Action Network you will receive CCC urgent appeals by e-mail. Through these appeals you will get updates on cases the CCC is working on and suggestions for specific actions you can take on these cases.

Sign up for the CCC Urgent Action Network and lend your support to garment workers' rights struggles around the world.

Developing and circulating appeals for urgent action (called "urgent appeals" for short) is one way that the CCC supports garment workers in specific cases where their rights have been violated. A CCC urgent appeal is a request that people take action (ex. write a letter of protest to a factory owner) to demonstrate support for workers' demands in a situation where their rights are not being respected.

The CCC frequently receives appeals from workers producing garments and sports shoes for companies that are part of the international supply chains of major multinational brand name companies. These brand name companies are vulnerable to public opinion regarding conditions at their suppliers, therefore concern expressed by campaigners and the public can have an impact on the action such companies take in relation to these cases. In recent years the campaign has taken up an average of 30 cases per year in nearly as many countries.

The CCC only takes action on cases of rights violations if it is clear that this is what the workers involved in the dispute want.

The CCC believes that garment workers should be the ones to decide if they want international support in specific cases where their rights have been violated. For workers, drawing public attention to rights violations at the international level often involves taking significant risk. They might suffer discrimination for speaking out about the conditions in their workplace - they might be reassigned to other jobs, they might be suspended, or they might lose their jobs and be blacklisted from future employment. Workers must understand and consider these risks when deciding if they want to draw international attention to their dispute and the form that international support should take (a public campaign is just one option, in many cases workers do not want their complaints/negotiations to be made public but would still like support from international labor rights activists). Workers and their representatives know the local context of their cases best and therefore play a key role in determining if international action should be taken and in developing the international action strategies in these cases.